Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark
Anecdotes abound in the Danish public debate about well-educated immigrants that are in jobs they are formally overqualified for. Using a 1995-2002 panel data set based on Danish registers, this study attempts to find out how large a problem immigr...
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okr-10986-71042021-04-23T14:02:33Z Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark Nielsen, Chantal Pohl ADEQUATE EDUCATION AGE GROUP COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN DISMISSAL EARLY RETIREMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED WORKERS EDUCATION EXPENDITURE EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS EDUCATIONAL LEVEL EDUCATIONAL QUALITY EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT RATES ETHNIC GROUPS FOREIGN EDUCATION FORMAL EDUCATION FORMAL SCHOOLING FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER LEVEL OF EDUCATION HOME COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL IMMIGRANT IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICY INCOME INEQUALITIES INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION JOB MATCH JOB SKILL JOB TRAINING JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCE LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET EXPERIENCE LABOUR MARKETS LANGUAGE COURSES LEARNING LEGISLATORS LET LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY SKILLS LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOWER LEVEL OF EDUCATION MARITAL STATUS MIGRATION MINIMUM WAGES MOBILITY MOTHER MOTHER TONGUE NUMBER OF CHILDREN OCCUPATION ON-THE-JOB TRAINING PAPERS PAYING JOBS PERMANENT JOBS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PRESENT ANALYSIS PRESENT STUDY PREVIOUS JOB PREVIOUS SECTION PRIMARY SCHOOLING PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS PROGRESS PUBLIC DEBATE QUALITY OF EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING SELF-ASSESSMENT SEX SKILL LEVEL SKILL REQUIREMENTS SKILLED OCCUPATIONS SKILLED WORKERS TERTIARY EDUCATION TRAINING COSTS UNDERACHIEVEMENT UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT SPELLS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WAGE EFFECTS WORK EXPERIENCE WORKER WORKFORCE Anecdotes abound in the Danish public debate about well-educated immigrants that are in jobs they are formally overqualified for. Using a 1995-2002 panel data set based on Danish registers, this study attempts to find out how large a problem immigrant overeducation is in the context of the Danish labor market. More specifically, three questions are posed: First, to what extent are immigrants overeducated and are they more likely to be so than native Danes? Second, why are some immigrants more likely to become overeducated than others? And finally, what are the consequences of overeducation for individual wages? The authors find that among wage earners with at least a vocational education or higher, 25 percent of male non-Western immigrants are overeducated. The same applies for 15 percent of native Danes. Particularly immigrants with a foreign-acquired education risk becoming overeducated - here the share is 30 percent among those with a vocational education or higher. The authors find that Danish labor market experience is extremely important in reducing the likelihood of becoming overeducated. Years spent in the country without accumulating labor market experience do not improve an individual's chances of an appropriate job-to-education match. In terms of earnings consequences, the study concludes that years of overeducation do increase wages for immigrants, but much less so than years of adequate education. This is also true for native Danes, but the relative penalty for overeducation is much larger for immigrants than for Danes. 2012-06-05T15:05:29Z 2012-06-05T15:05:29Z 2007-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/05/7634533/immigrant-overeducation-evidence-denmark http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7104 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4234 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia Denmark |
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ADEQUATE EDUCATION AGE GROUP COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN DISMISSAL EARLY RETIREMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED WORKERS EDUCATION EXPENDITURE EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS EDUCATIONAL LEVEL EDUCATIONAL QUALITY EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT RATES ETHNIC GROUPS FOREIGN EDUCATION FORMAL EDUCATION FORMAL SCHOOLING FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER LEVEL OF EDUCATION HOME COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL IMMIGRANT IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICY INCOME INEQUALITIES INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION JOB MATCH JOB SKILL JOB TRAINING JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCE LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET EXPERIENCE LABOUR MARKETS LANGUAGE COURSES LEARNING LEGISLATORS LET LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY SKILLS LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOWER LEVEL OF EDUCATION MARITAL STATUS MIGRATION MINIMUM WAGES MOBILITY MOTHER MOTHER TONGUE NUMBER OF CHILDREN OCCUPATION ON-THE-JOB TRAINING PAPERS PAYING JOBS PERMANENT JOBS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PRESENT ANALYSIS PRESENT STUDY PREVIOUS JOB PREVIOUS SECTION PRIMARY SCHOOLING PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS PROGRESS PUBLIC DEBATE QUALITY OF EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING SELF-ASSESSMENT SEX SKILL LEVEL SKILL REQUIREMENTS SKILLED OCCUPATIONS SKILLED WORKERS TERTIARY EDUCATION TRAINING COSTS UNDERACHIEVEMENT UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT SPELLS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WAGE EFFECTS WORK EXPERIENCE WORKER WORKFORCE |
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ADEQUATE EDUCATION AGE GROUP COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN DISMISSAL EARLY RETIREMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED WORKERS EDUCATION EXPENDITURE EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS EDUCATIONAL LEVEL EDUCATIONAL QUALITY EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT RATES ETHNIC GROUPS FOREIGN EDUCATION FORMAL EDUCATION FORMAL SCHOOLING FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER LEVEL OF EDUCATION HOME COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL IMMIGRANT IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICY INCOME INEQUALITIES INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION JOB MATCH JOB SKILL JOB TRAINING JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCE LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET EXPERIENCE LABOUR MARKETS LANGUAGE COURSES LEARNING LEGISLATORS LET LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY SKILLS LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOWER LEVEL OF EDUCATION MARITAL STATUS MIGRATION MINIMUM WAGES MOBILITY MOTHER MOTHER TONGUE NUMBER OF CHILDREN OCCUPATION ON-THE-JOB TRAINING PAPERS PAYING JOBS PERMANENT JOBS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PRESENT ANALYSIS PRESENT STUDY PREVIOUS JOB PREVIOUS SECTION PRIMARY SCHOOLING PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS PROGRESS PUBLIC DEBATE QUALITY OF EDUCATION RETURNS TO EDUCATION SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING SELF-ASSESSMENT SEX SKILL LEVEL SKILL REQUIREMENTS SKILLED OCCUPATIONS SKILLED WORKERS TERTIARY EDUCATION TRAINING COSTS UNDERACHIEVEMENT UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT SPELLS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WAGE EFFECTS WORK EXPERIENCE WORKER WORKFORCE Nielsen, Chantal Pohl Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark |
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Anecdotes abound in the Danish public
debate about well-educated immigrants that are in jobs they
are formally overqualified for. Using a 1995-2002 panel data
set based on Danish registers, this study attempts to find
out how large a problem immigrant overeducation is in the
context of the Danish labor market. More specifically, three
questions are posed: First, to what extent are immigrants
overeducated and are they more likely to be so than native
Danes? Second, why are some immigrants more likely to become
overeducated than others? And finally, what are the
consequences of overeducation for individual wages? The
authors find that among wage earners with at least a
vocational education or higher, 25 percent of male
non-Western immigrants are overeducated. The same applies
for 15 percent of native Danes. Particularly immigrants with
a foreign-acquired education risk becoming overeducated -
here the share is 30 percent among those with a vocational
education or higher. The authors find that Danish labor
market experience is extremely important in reducing the
likelihood of becoming overeducated. Years spent in the
country without accumulating labor market experience do not
improve an individual's chances of an appropriate
job-to-education match. In terms of earnings consequences,
the study concludes that years of overeducation do increase
wages for immigrants, but much less so than years of
adequate education. This is also true for native Danes, but
the relative penalty for overeducation is much larger for
immigrants than for Danes. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Nielsen, Chantal Pohl |
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Nielsen, Chantal Pohl |
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Nielsen, Chantal Pohl |
| title |
Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark |
| title_short |
Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark |
| title_full |
Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark |
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Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark |
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Immigrant Overeducation : Evidence from Denmark |
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immigrant overeducation : evidence from denmark |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/05/7634533/immigrant-overeducation-evidence-denmark http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7104 |
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